This comprehensive package offers help from beginning to end - brainstorming, drafting and revising until it’s as close to perfect as possible, and you feel proud and ready to submit.

I’ll take a good amount of time in the beginning to understand your entire academic profile, as a holistic review is necessary in order for me to best help you. Choosing the right topic can feel challenging, and the college application essay is very different from your typical high school essay. So in order to garner the most powerful essay ideas, I’ll also ask you some introspective questions to ponder, taking notes and continuing an organic dialogue.

Once you have an idea, I will work continuously to provide you with constructive feedback through multiple drafts, with detailed critique and suggestions on both the macro and micro level so that the final product is the best version of your own writing.

The Activities section of the Common App tends to get overlooked by applicants; it’s often the part they rush to finish up at the very last minute. This is unfortunate and ill-advised, as it is your résumé of how you’ve spent the many hours, weeks and months that make up your high school career. It should be immaculate - the order in which you list your activities (not chronological), the verb tenses, the punctuation - all in only 150 *characters* (not 150 words!).

I’ll help you maximize the (insanely) small space they give you in order to word your descriptions most effectively, showcasing your talents, passions and leadership. I’ll also comb through each and every line with you so that you don’t make the careless error of boasting about your “marital arts” skills. (Spell check doesn’t know that’s not a thing!) 

FLAT FEE:

Preseason (May-July): $1000 for up to 3 months

Regular Season (August-October): $1150 for up to 3 months

These pieces, therefore, need to be of the same excellent caliber as the personal statement - if not more - as they could be the very thing that takes you from a “yeah, maybe” to a “definitely, yes” in the eyes of the admissions team.

Colleges really do want to know why you want to attend their school (a popular supplemental prompt); please do not just copy and paste your answer from one school to another! I’ll coach you on how to demonstrate that you’ve done your homework and how to communicate why your acceptance would be mutually beneficial to you and to the school. For other supplemental questions (e.g., what do you want to study here, what makes you diverse), I’ll advise you on choosing certain topics over others to truly supplement your main piece, in a way that’s not redundant but still provides a consistent thread throughout your entire profile.  

The Deluxe Package is ideal for students who are applying Early Action or Early Decision to their one dream school.

FLAT FEE:

Preseason (May-July): $1350 for up to 4 months

Regular Season (August-October): $1500 for up to 4 months

For returning clients only.

$350 per each additional school

Each one is 350 words, so it’s more like a mini-essay (but an even better description would be a “written interview”); the idea is that four of these together would provide the admissions committee with pretty good insight into who you are. The UCs are test-blind, so your writing pieces hold a lot of weight. The responses to the PIQs require a different tone and style from those of the Common App personal statement, where you have more room to more deeply tell a story and write creatively. I will advise you on how to decide which four are the best choices for you and how to answer each one distinctively in order to best present yourself as the well-rounded candidate you are. I’ll also help you carefully craft your Activities List, which allows you to list up to 20 (as opposed to only 10 for the Common App) and use up to 350 characters (as opposed to the crazy 150).

FLAT FEE:

Preseason (May-July): $1000 for up to 3 months

Regular Season (August-October): $1150 for up to 3 months